Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 01:48:17PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote:
> No need to go that far.
> Andrea in Germany is traditionally a woman’s name, Andrea in Italy is a
> masculine name. How can we tell if a certain specific Andrea is named
> according to the German (Czech, Slovak etc) tradition (and hence likely a
> woman) or the Italian (and hence probably a man)? There’s no way to
> generally tell this based on the name alone.
>
> Take Misha/Miša/Миша or Petya/Peťa/Петя. In Russian tradition, these are
> very likely masculine names, from Mikhail and Petr.
If only this piece of software had a distinction between "almost always
male", "leaning male", "neutral", "leaning female", "almost always
female"... Oh wait, it does!
Precisely for the reason you mention.
> And we haven’t yet touched the topic of people who were given non-traditional names.
In which case it says "unknown".
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